The mackerel fishery has become the most important pelagic species for export. Prior to 1994
the allocations between the three main fleet groups, the purse seine, the coastal and the trawl
fleet was negotiated on an ...

Women play crucial roles in fisheries, particularly on the post harvest level. Despite
this, they are noticeably absent from the discussion of many development programmes
in fisheries. The focus is mainly on the needs ...

Development is a term that evokes powerful images. It speaks to the collective aspiration of the
people for a life of meaning and dignity. It inspire the hope to achieve what develop countries
have achieved and what the ...

The commercial tuna fishery of the East Atlantic and like wise the Ghanaian
tuna fishery are based on the harvests of Bigeye, Skipjack and Yellowfin. In Ghana,
baitboats and purse seiners commercially harvest these species ...

A resource management system combines a set of regulatory scheme within a
particular resource to achieve a management outcome. The effectiveness of these
regulatory measures depends on the support gained from the resource ...

Increased attention has been paid over recent years to the Over exploitation of small-scale
fishery resources. This paper offers a simple bio-economic model of fishery exploitation
orientated towards both Lake Malombe ...

Two hake species are caught off the coast of Namibia. These are Merluccious capensis
and Merluccius paradoxus, and they are not distinguished between in catches . Two
fishing fleets harvest hake, these are trawlers and ...

Kapenta (Limnothrissa miodon) was introduced from Lake Tanganyika into the man-made
Lake Kariba, where it now supports a large and viable fishery for Zimbabwe and Zambia who
share the lake. The challenge for this paper ...

Fisheries in Bohai Sea occur in an ecosystem, with different provinces conducting
fishing activities on different species using different gears. Coordination of
government actions continues to be a problem, as there ...

After an evaluation of this Nile perch fishery for the period 1986 – 2000, when it
constituted more than 60% of the catch, it is evident that a severe over fishing problem
exits and that the fishery has never been managed ...

Resource management in the coastal zone involves a large number of stakeholders
and resource users, from traditional fishermen and recreational housing owners to
state and municipal government. The aim of this study is ...

In recent years increased attention has been focussed on fish vaccines and vaccination
against diseases in farmed fish. In this study, efficacy and side effects of vaccination
against atypical furunculosis in Atlantic ...

Artisanal marine fisheries of Tanzania involve the majority of the coastal population
whose survival is entirely dependent on the coastal fishery resources. In this paper the
artisanal sector of the marine fisheries for ...

To keep up with the recent trends in consumer demand for salmon product in
supermarkets, an understanding of the relationship between consumption and
variation of lifestyle is needed. The present paper seeks to address ...

This study has been conducted in the northern most Rift Valley lake fishery – lake
Ziway. Catch & effort and economic data have been used to analyze its fishery. The aim
of the analysis was to review the present management ...

The Ghanaian tuna fishery is a baitboat and purse seine fishery. Three main species of
tuna are caught namely, Skipjack, Bigeye and Yellowfin. A detailed and
comprehensive set of catch and effort data for the tuna fisheries ...